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Yes also.

Initially, I've created this tool for Rob Porcaro (from Heartwood blog) :
http://www.rpwoodwork.com/blog/2019/01/12/a-new-rasp-for-curved-work/...

originally published is the issue #115 of the highly respected magazine “American Lutherie”, written by Todd Brotherton.

Although this article is appreciative towards my work and therefore...

@Brian Kent : « What sort of person do I would like to help ? » Well hard to say as there are many kind of different « good person ». I don’t know if this expression has the same meaning in English...

All my life I have received countless grateful thanks, congratulations or even gifts from the woodworker communities around the world, and this is what has been and is still doing my job a daily...

An US professional guitar maker, Daniel Roberts, for who I did some rasps and ended up being a friend, has made a video on his techniques to shape a guitar neck.
I thought some of you may enjoy it....

The two coarsest rasps used for roughing are #6 (the flat rasp and a cabinet maker). The two finest used for finishing are the two rifflers (#13).

The first rasp is 12" Flat rasp, stitching grain #6 on both sides. This is a quite coarse rasp, but yes the same rasp with a stiching grain #3 (on the other side for example to have a two in one...

I agree with that

I am often asked to explain how to properly use a rasp.
Rather than a long and tedious speech, I had the idea to film as an example a cabinetmaker near me doing a "deer foot" for a cabinet.

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What Bob Lang just wrote and what I answer to new-comers to the world of quality rasps exactly match, as you can read here.

Comparing rasps of different brands is indeed not an easy thing to do.

One cannot only say a rasp of brand X with a stitching grain of n°2 is equivalent to a rasp of brand Y with a stitching grain...

Hi Ian, yes the main effort I have to do is to convince woodworkers that they don't know what a rasp can do until they tried (a real good) one. Most of them, once tried, find many many ways to use...

It is very heartening to see how you are interested in this subject. I agree with almost all that have been written so far. I don't pretend to know the truth, I just do my best efforts to do things...

I saw this thread on saw-handle and wish to take this opportunity to ask a question (Mike, please excuse me for being off the topic) :

I am trying to develop a rasp especially adapted to the needs...

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Well I guess that if you have already tasted the wine and tested the rasps, we haven't much left to export, except maybe our worldwide recognized skills to go on strike each time the sun is...

The punches are home-made of course (like the hammers actually), we call them "grain of barley" because of the shape we give to the tip. They are very sharp and peaked, and needs to be resharpen...

When it comes to do woodworking with hand-tools, saws are necessary, but the pleasure comes for using quality rasps :D

Here's a recent and rather positive review in a magazine you may know :

http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/new-to-the-usa-source-for-hand-cut-rasps

I scrap it and buy a new one, but a good one this time. :D

More seriously, it is not that easy, unless you are a very heavy user, to dull a high quality rasps, provided you take good care of it...

Hi Mike,

Maybe my explanations have been a bit confusing : Traditional, Titan and Sapphire ranges are all made out of the same steel. Titan and Sapphire rasps have an extra operation, two...

I have big doubts on acid being able to sharpen a rasp. According to me the acid can only clean the rasp, which makes it feel sharper. But if you let it too long in the acid it could also dull the...

Hi Rick,

Don't waste your time looking for it.
Here they are :

Star5 : 5% discount for an order of 3 pieces
Star10 : 10% for 6 pcs
Star15 : 15% for 10 pcs

I just sent a couple of Titan rasps to a quite famous Australian plane maker called HNT Gordon for a review. He is working with some australian wood species that are known to be amongst the hardest...

Thanks to you Gordon and all the others for your very kind words.

Sorry Jack, my english is not so good and I am not sure I understood exactly what you mean.